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this blog is nina wenhart's collection of resources on the various histories of new media art. it consists mainly of non or very little edited material i found flaneuring on the net, sometimes with my own annotations and comments, sometimes it's also textparts i retyped from books that are out of print.

it is also meant to be an additional resource of information and recommended reading for my students of the prehystories of new media class that i teach at the school of the art institute of chicago in fall 2008.

the focus is on the time period from the beginning of the 20th century up to today.

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2008-12-17

>> Alvaro Cassinelli, "Khronos Projector - a video time-warping machine with a tangible deformable screen", 2005

http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/


excerpt from website:
"The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate "islands of time" as well as "temporal waves" are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that "cuts" the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie."


there are tons of documentation materials on this website, videos, slides,...












the chapters of the docu are as follows:

  1. What, Why and How
  2. Installation Setup
  3. Video Content
  4. Demos (video & snapshots)
  5. Online Demo (Java Applet)
  6. Conclusions and Remarks
  7. Future Works
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Exhibition History
  10. Contact
  11. References

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demo appplet: http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/members/alvaro/Khronos/Khronos_P5/Khronos_Applets.htm


1 comment:

bineesh said...

From your post I came to know about Khronos Projector.
very helpful...
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